RBTH: ‘Mozart of psychology': How Lev Vygotsky helped shape modern thinking
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Lev Vygotsky
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his early death, his books and research were banned in the Soviet Union until Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, with a first collection of major texts published in 1956. A Review of General Psych…
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culture · Soviet psychologist (1896–1934) · philosopher · psychologist · pedagogue · non-fiction writer · university teacher · anthropologist · also Lev Vygotsky, Lev Semyonovich Vigotsky, Vygotsky
Born 17 November 1896 · Died 10 June 1934 · Q180819
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2002· 1 entry
Ranked Vygotsky as the 83rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century
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1982· 1 entry
And was presented by the editors as one of the most important of Vygotsky's works
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1968· 1 entry
“Como citado em "Social class, language and education" - página 43, Denis Lawton - Routledge & K. Paul, 1968 - 181 páginas”
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1953· 2 entries
With a first collection of major texts published in 1956
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Kozulin notes that "it became fashionable to be considered his [Vygotsky's] disciple", with a first collection of major texts published in 1956
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1936· 1 entry
The Communist Party condemned "pedology" (that is, developmental psychology)
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1934· 1 entry
Died 1934-06-10.
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1933· 1 entry
Thinking and Speech, 1934 (titled as Thought and Language in some translations)
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1927· 1 entry
The Problem of the Cultural Development of the Child, 1929
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1925· 1 entry
But the text was published only in 1965;
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1913· 1 entry
Vygotsky was admitted to the Moscow University by mere ballot through a "Jewish Lottery"; at the time, a three percent Jewish student quota was administered for entry in Moscow and Saint Petersburg Universities
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1896· 2 entries
Born 1896-11-17.
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In the town of Orsha in Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus) into a non-religious middle-class Jewish family of Simkha Leibovich (also known as Semyon Lvovich), a banker, and Tsetsilia Moiseevna
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